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Fernando Simões digs into when page tables stop being a rounding error: shared mappings across many processes, Linux kernel history from Arcangeli to Qi Zheng's empty-page-table fix, and the trade-offs of huge pages.
6 min · 1,309 words
More like SC-Forth-thousand, am I right?
Porting a Forth environment to the Sega SG-1000 / “Soggy” for low-level hardware tinkering, with notes on the bring-up and what works so far.
20 min · 4,584 words
Driving the GDEH0154D67 e-paper display with Rust
Hands-on Rust notes for driving a GDEH0154D67 e-paper panel—starting from a Watchy/ESP32 hack project, covering the display protocol, refresh quirks, and a working driver approach.
9 min · 2,066 words
Various Projects Independently Find Hidden SDR Capabilities in ESP32 Microcontrollers
ESPARGOS and independent projects uncover undocumented ESP32 IQ/baseband access enabling 2.2–2.7 GHz (and C5 5 GHz) SDR use—spectrum snapshots today, with ESP32-S31 Ethernet streaming and FPGA USB paths toward continuous demod.
3 min · 575 words
The Rise of Overfit Inference Engines
A hands-on essay on how local LLM inference stacks are overfit to specific models and hardware—and what that means for anyone chasing reproducible homelab performance with llama.cpp and friends.
10 min · 2,324 words
How little does an AI agent need, and how cheap can it get?
Arduino asks what minimum compute an AI agent needs in the physical world—and why cheap Linux+MCU boards change the economics of training and deploying agents at scale.
3 min · 709 words
Arseny Kapoulkine revisits clustered LOD and meshoptimizer after NVIDIA’s vk_lod_clusters Zorah update—smaller, nicer hierarchical clustered LOD for path-traced scenes with billions of triangles.
33 min · 7,518 words
OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
OpenAI and Synopsys partner on a multi-year GPT-Synopsys model that natively operates Synopsys EDA tools for agentic chip design, with revenue sharing, enterprise data controls, and early customer engagements.
2 min · 565 words
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Allison Marsh traces how Michael Bloomberg's Market Master grew from a monochrome Merrill Lynch terminal into the Bloomberg Terminal—keyboards, hot keys, private networks, and museum artifacts of financial computing.
7 min · 1,562 words
Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
Marcin Wichary photographs modular industrial control dashboards in German and Polish museums—air traffic, subway, railway, and power-plant panels as physical design systems that software later replaced.
1 min · 320 words
Automatic Transmission — a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Northeastern researchers (with Consumer Reports) present a large-scale measurement of the connected-vehicle ecosystem: 21 late-model cars and 30 companion apps, third-party trackers, disclosure gaps, and why vehicle data sharing needs more transparency.
7 min · 1,626 words
Floppy Emu Hardware Failure Analysis Results
Steve digs through years of Floppy Emu QA failures and returns: clock crystals dominate the failure table, with CPLDs, programming misses, and soldering filling out a detailed hardware autopsy.
5 min · 1,165 words
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2026
Backblaze’s Q2 2026 Drive Stats: 354,415 drives at 1.73% quarterly AFR, lifetime AFR 1.41%, plus a clear CMR vs SMR primer as 20TB+ drives become a larger share of the fleet.
11 min · 2,548 words
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
SquareOrbits argues Apple's macOS Golden Gate release echoes Snow Leopard's stability pitch but ships with serious bugs—including a Colours eyedropper hang that force-restarts the system—and catalogs the breakage from a working-Mac perspective.
4 min · 914 words
Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
A build write-up of an audio-reactive LED sculpture that maps Fibonacci phyllotaxis onto a physical light array—math, fabrication, and real-time reactive firmware.
7 min · 1,644 words
Rickrolling with a Pharmacy cross
A playful hardware write-up: turning a pharmacy LED cross into a scrolling Rickroll display, with wiring notes and the software path.
5 min · 1,072 words
AMD to Acquire World Labs to Advance the Future of AI Compute
AMD announces a definitive agreement to acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, bringing spatial AI researchers and models in-house to shape future AI hardware, software, and systems.
4 min · 1,011 words
World Labs announces a definitive agreement to join AMD, arguing that scale, reach, and closer hardware partnership are needed to accelerate spatial and physical AI research.
1 min · 218 words
KiCad Version 10.0.7 Release Candidate 1 Available
KiCad announces the first release candidate for 10.0.7, with testing builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux ahead of the stable point release.
1 min · 199 words
Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights
Julia Evans walks through repairing decade-old rechargeable bike lights by replacing the battery at a makerspace—opening the case, identifying the cell, soldering a replacement, and what she learned as a non-electronics expert.
4 min · 1,011 words